This isn't funny...

**nitefly5150** · 10.24.06, 07:26 PM

but its kinda strange. I'm sure nobody thought it would hurt anybody - word to the wise: sealed objects heated until they break open tend to do so with amazing force.

http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1018586

**timmac** · 10.24.06, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by nitefly5150

but its kinda strange. I'm sure nobody thought it would hurt anybody - word to the wise: sealed objects heated until they break open tend to do so with amazing force.

http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1018586

Why the HELL would anyone throw a keg of beer in a fire? Shit.

**jimmy812** · 10.25.06, 05:44 AM

Talk about stupid!
Unfortunately it had to happen here in CT.
It's one thing to throw a can of beer in the fire and watch it explode but a friggin' keg??

**FORD** · 10.25.06, 10:53 AM

This would be a shoe-in for the Darwin Awards, except the guy who got killed probably wasn't the one responsible.

You buy a sealed can of anything - doesn't matter if it's whipped cream or WD-40 - and it always says right on the label "Do not dispose of in fire".

It's chemistry 101 - sealed cans contain compressed gases. Gas expands when heated. Expanded gas can't stay in a sealed can, so it explodes. Doesn't matter if the gas itself is flammable or not, though that might make it worse.

A beer keg ain't nothing but a big heavy can. Or a makeshift bomb, depending on how you look at it.

**sisca** · 10.25.06, 03:55 PM

yet another example of why sterilizing people who do not meet a certain IQ is a great idea.

**RG550L** · 10.25.06, 04:32 PM

I use to work at a power plant and one of the guys who drove a front end loader out in the coal yard decided to heat up a can of baked beans on a hot plate for lunch. He didn't open the can and he got distracted because some trucks came in at the same time to dump their coal. A while later he rembered he was heating his beans up in the lunch shack. When he went to get his beans the can was streched and vibrating on the hot plate. He turned off the hot plate but decided he was going to throw the can outside. Big mistake, the lid exploded off the can as soon as he touched it and blew his jaw in half. He survived and now has an ugly scar and will be forever known as "bean face".